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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by klisurovi4@midwest.social to c/fitness@lemmy.world

Yesterday I was doing overhead press for 3x8 at 30 kilos. I felt a slight pain/tightness towards the back left side of my neck and today it's quite a bit worse. Nothing unbearable, but I can't tilt my head to the back left. I don't think I'm ego lifting but this has happened once before. Any tips for a faster recovery and what I can do to prevent it in the future?

Also, weirdly enough the pain is on the left side and it hurts when I tilt my head left, so when that muscle contracts. I would have expected it to hurt when stretched, no?

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by klisurovi4@midwest.social to c/cooking@lemmy.world

A lot of recipes suggest adding corn syrup or honey to the sugar in order to make crystallization less likely. I'm not in the US, so corn syrup pretty much doesn't exist, but I have a jar of raw and therefore very crystalized honey that I got from a friend who keeps bees. Will using that still help? I'm thinking that all the imperfections like pollen or wax in raw honey will just make the caramel even more likely to crystalize.

[-] klisurovi4@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago

Are you dual wielding mice, my man? Why do you need two? I know it doesn't matter for your question, but I'm genuinely curious what the use case is.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by klisurovi4@midwest.social to c/idiotsincars@lemmy.world
[-] klisurovi4@midwest.social 32 points 3 months ago

"watch the ficus" - telling somebody to be more careful after they do something clumsy like tripping or nearly dropping something. I used it in front of some friends once and got confused looks. Apparently grandma used to have a potted ficus tree and used to tell me to watch it when I was playing close to it, so it stuck as a saying in the family.

[-] klisurovi4@midwest.social 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have a Fairphone 5 and it's... ok. It's definitely overpriced for its specs but you can't really expect a cheap phone while cutting down on slave labour at the same time. It's also quite buggy. Not unusably so, but coming from a Galaxy S9 (yes, Samsung bad, that's why I switched), it's a bit jarring. For example, sometimes I'll pull it out of my pocket and it's mysteriously off. I turn it back on and there doesn't appear to be a reason for it and it works fine. A few times I've had the battery drain insanely fast for some reason, despite the phone reporting no apps having high battery usage. Some apps also have issues on occasion, Discord for example tends to get stuck in the gallery view after you send a picture and it doesn't allow you to open the keyboard again. It's also missing some minor, but neat things, like the ability to snooze alarms by turning over the phone (Edit: tbh that's probably a stock Android thing and not really fair to hold against the phone, but I still miss it) and the fingerprint reader is nowhere near as reliable as the one in my old phone.

The vast majority of the time it works just fine and if you don't expect the polish you'll get out of a Samsung flagship, you'll probably be ok with it. But you are very much paying a premium for the sustainability and repairability, not the overall experience. I don't regret supporting Fairphone, vote with your wallet and all that, but I definitely recognise the device itself has issues and when looked at purely on specs and software quality, it isn't really worth the money.

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GZCLP questions (midwest.social)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by klisurovi4@midwest.social to c/fitness@lemmy.world

So I'm pretty new to the gym and on my second week of GZCLP. I'm curious what the reasoning is for no AMRAP set in the tier 2 exercises. I was under the impression muscles grow more when pushed close to failure, so why wouldn't you want to do that in the low weight/high rep sets?

Also on a slightly related note: can I do the tiers out of order? If for example the squat rack is taken, can I do my tier 2 bench press first and my tier 1 squats afterwards or is that not recommended for some reason?

[-] klisurovi4@midwest.social 78 points 8 months ago

I bought a Steam Deck so I can play games while on the go. I just kind of forgot I'm never actually on the go, so 90% of the time it's just gathering dust on my nightstand, because I'd rather play on my proper gaming PC when I'm at home.

[-] klisurovi4@midwest.social 99 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Meanwhile me who just never deletes anything:

[-] klisurovi4@midwest.social 17 points 9 months ago

Lanterns are a pretty significant fire hazard, i'd avoid those too

[-] klisurovi4@midwest.social 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I wouldn't really call WWE "safe", more like "mostly not life-threatening". Lots of wrestlers have gotten properly fucked up over the years. Yes, the intent isn't to cause harm but with all the flashy moves being pulled you are bound to break a few bones at some point

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by klisurovi4@midwest.social to c/boardgames@feddit.de

Got the game a couple of days ago and so far we've had 4 sessions with 2-3 players. I know racing board games are generally kinda bad but we've been having a blast with this one. It's a hand management game, which means it's not quite as random as something with dice rolls like Formula D, while still having some unpredictability. It's relatively easy to learn and pretty intuitive once you've played a few rounds. There are also some very simple, but effective bot mechanics, so you can have a great game with only two players or even solo.

It's also really pretty and incredibly thematic. Everything is based on 60s Formula 1, which the F1 fan in me loves.

[-] klisurovi4@midwest.social 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Some great jokes in there:

  • FC24, a game with mixed reviews nominated for GOTY.
  • RDR2, a game the online mode of which got abandoned two years in because it wasn’t making as much money as GTA5 nominated for Labour of Love.
  • Starfield, a game which steals most of its gameplay from decade old Bethesda games nominated for Most Innovative Gameplay.

Idk what the steam community is smoking these days but it’s got to be good.

[-] klisurovi4@midwest.social 31 points 1 year ago

I never liked afternoon naps as a kid, so I brought some Tom & Jerry comic books to read during nap time at kindergarten. The teacher told me that everyone has to take a nap, took my comic books and never returned them. I'm now 25 years old and still salty about that.

[-] klisurovi4@midwest.social 55 points 1 year ago

It's not, this pic is many years old, way before ai-generation became popular. My guess is it's just shit photoshop by somebody who isn't paid nearly enough to care

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It’s a great game and I’m so glad I finally got to play it.

I’m running a RTX 2070 Super and a Ryzen 5 3600 with 32 gigs of RAM. Using Xenia-Canary I could run the game at 1080p with decent framerate, but that caused some really unpleasant brightness issues at night, so I stuck with 720p and honestly stopped noticing the low resolution after a while. The game ran at a stable 60 all the way to the end and I encountered absolutely no issues besides some flickering shadows once or twice.

If you have a decent gaming PC and have never played the original RDR I strongly recommend you try this. It can be a bit of a faff to find what emulator settings work for you, but once you get it working properly, it’s an absolute blast. RDR still holds up really well in my opinion.

[-] klisurovi4@midwest.social 43 points 1 year ago

"Upgrade your pc, lol" should not be a solution to a problem that a company randomly created for no real reason. What OP is doing is right, bitch about it and hopefully Valve will notice and fix it, as they should.

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That's all. I'm excited and kinda scared. I'm really into cars and absolutely love driving and motorcycles look like fun, so I signed up for a course on a whim. Still haven't told my parents and probably won't anytime soon, since they believe riding a motorcycle is borderline suicidal and I don't want them freaking out.

[-] klisurovi4@midwest.social 40 points 1 year ago

HDDs are even cheaper and you really don't need an SSD for movies. You can get a 4tb HDD for less than 50 bucks and that will hold more than enough movies/shows for the majority of people.

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We need more posts here and with the lack of a Yaris community, here's my bean

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